Michael Ring
Ceist:872 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic assessment. [20001/03]
Vol. 571 No. 1
872 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic assessment. [20001/03]
Responsibility for the provision of orthodontic treatment to eligible persons in County Mayo rests with the Western Health Board. My Department has asked the chief executive officer to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.
873 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic treatment. [20002/03]
Responsibility for the provision of orthodontic treatment to eligible persons in County Mayo rests with the Western Health Board. My Department has asked the chief executive officer to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.
874 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children if there was a category for urgent treatment when people were assessed by the orthodontist in the Western Health Board area, whereby a person was deemed to be in need of urgent treatment; if a list ever existed for such persons; if so, when it was discontinued; and if it is still in existence, the number of persons who are now on the urgent treatment list. [20003/03]
875 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Western Health Board has changed the guidelines in relation to qualifying for orthodontic treatment. [20004/03]
887 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children the exact assessment waiting list and exact treatment waiting lists in categories A and B for orthodontics in the Western Health Board region. [20016/03]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 874, 875 and 887 together.
As the Deputy is aware, the provision of orthodontic treatment to eligible patients is the statutory responsibility of the health boards in the first instance.
876 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons from the schools in the Belmullet area of County Mayo who were brought to a Western Health Board orthodontic consultant for assessment; the number who were subsequently put on the treatment waiting list; and the number who were refused treatment. [20005/03]
Responsibility for the provision of orthodontic treatment to eligible persons in County Mayo rests with the Western Health Board. My Department does not routinely collect information of the nature requested by the Deputy and has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.